The construction of the Palace of the Parliament was the most extreme expression of the systematization program imposed on Romania by Nicolae Ceaușescu. For its construction, the Uranus-Izvor neighborhood was demolished. The cost of heating, electricity, and lighting alone exceeds $6 million per year, comparable to the total cost of powering a medium-sized city.

Īs of 2020, the Palace of the Parliament is valued at €4 billion, making it the most expensive administrative building in the world. Due to its impressive characteristics, events organized by state institutions and international bodies such as conferences and symposia take place there, but despite this about 70% of the building remains empty. Though originally named the House of the Republic when under construction ( Romanian: Casa Republicii), the palace became widely known as The People's House ( Romanian: Casa Poporului) after the Romanian Revolution of December 1989. The museums in the Palace are the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Communist Totalitarianism (established in 2015) and the Museum of the Palace. Known for its ornate interior composed of 23 sections, the palace houses the two chambers of the Parliament of Romania: the Senate ( Senat) and the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera Deputaților), along with three museums and an international conference center. The Palace was ordered by Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989), the president of Romania and the second of two long-ruling heads of state in the country since World War II, during a period in which the personality cult of political worship and adoration increased considerably for him and his family. The building was designed and supervised by chief architect Anca Petrescu, with a team of approximately 700 architects, and constructed over a period of 13 years (1984–97) in Socialist realist and modernist Neoclassical architectural forms and styles, with socialist realism in mind. The Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world, weighing about 4,098,500,000 kilograms (9.04 billion pounds 4.10 million tonnes). The Palace of the Parliament ( Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului), also known as the Republic's House ( Casa Republicii) or People's House/People's Palace ( Casa Poporului), is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, located atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital. World's most expensive administrative building.

World's largest civilian building with an administrative function.

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